Meet Uranus. Aside from being the punchline in many more crude astronomy jokes, it is also the third largest planet in out solar system and the 7th from the sun.
It is also unique as it spins nearly perpendicular to the direction of planets that we are used to, as in it spins on its side. Because on this we still can’t even decide which is its north and south pole because they are both so close to what on our planet would be the equator!
Like its close neighbours it is a gas giant and it even has extremely faint rings like those of Saturn that go around it in its direction of orbit. This planet is so interesting as the odd child out of our solar system and really deserves a bit more respect than as the punchline of a dirty joke.
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